Nordic stocks increased Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.2%.

Cadeler A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, adding 8.2%, and Schibsted ASA Series B gained 5.3%. Schibsted ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares rising 4.5%.

NCAB Group AB posted the largest decline, declining 5.8%, followed by Sjova-Almennar Tryggingar hf. shares, which dropped 3.1%. Shares of A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series A declined 2.7%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.4%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.9%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 2.0%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.2% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.0% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.2%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, while gold futures were up 0.1%. Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $70,059.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 98.91.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the euro was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%.


-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.


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